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adrian
April 7th, 2007, 11:25 PM
no joke brah.

Source (http://www.pidgin.im/)

After a long, and unfortunately secret debate (as we could not say why we were looking at a name change, we ended up just doing this ourselves), we settled on the name "Pidgin" for gaim itself, "libpurple" for libgaim (which, as of 2.0.0 beta6, exists), and "Finch" for gaim-text. Yes, the spelling of "Pidgin" is intentional, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin.

brah, now we go stay talk pidgin on the internet.

scrivener
April 7th, 2007, 11:37 PM
I think it's a good name, and it makes sense.

Cameron
April 8th, 2007, 12:46 AM
I understand naming the program to pidgin, but why name the libraries purple? Not that many people actually search for the aps libraries once installed, but if they did how would they find them.